Start Spreading the News - The Seventh Annual African American Book Club Summit (AABCS) will take place October 15 –20, 2006
New York, New York, it's a wonderful town! It is also the host city for the seventh annual African American Book Club Summit (AABCS.) For the first time ever, the AABCS will depart from the east coast, bringing this literary adventure to a new group of book lovers. On Sunday, October 15, 2006, the AABCS will set sail from New York Harbor on the fabulous Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas for the exotic port of Kings Wharf, Bermuda.
The Explorer of the Seas has everything from a rock-climbing wall to an ice-skating rink. Sports and fitness offerings include a full basketball/volleyball court, golf simulator, jogging track, rock-climbing wall, in-line skating track, nine-hole miniature golf course, and a top-of-the-line fitness center and spa. Staterooms offer enhanced decor that strikes a nice balance of comfort and elegance. Bright colors and innovative touches create a welcoming atmosphere. Most staterooms offer a view of either the ocean or the action along the ship's own Royal Promenade.
This literary oasis recently returned from their 6th Annual Event (October 2005), which departed from Long Beach, California for ports along the Mexican Riviera. Featured authors on this voyage included Eric Jerome Dickey, Bernice McFadden, Travis Hunter; Mary Monroe; Nina Foxx; Victoria Christopher-Murray and ReShonda Tate-Billingsley.
Native New Yorker, Stefanie Preston took first place honors in the annual Short Story Contest. The contest was open to all registered participants of the Cruise (with the exception of the featured authors). The winners were announced during the cruise.
Founded in 2000, the AABCS has received national recognition as being one of the country’s most unique literary events. It has been featured in Essence Magazine; Ebony Magazine; Black Issues Book Review and Book Magazine; and Upscale Magazine. It is an excellent opportunity for book clubs and avid readers to gather, discuss books, exchange ideas, develop strategies, and meet some of the country's finest authors.
Readers get the opportunity to meet and greet their favorite authors as well as meet new up and coming authors during workshops, panel discussions and private parties. Aspiring writers will also have an opportunity to discuss and obtain information on self-publishing, marketing and writing fiction.
PageTurner.net and Tricom Publicity, Inc are the corporate sponsors.
This venture is a part of a national effort to promote literacy, reading for pleasure and writing as a career. PageTurner.net, a literary services company, is the event coordinator.
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Voodoo Season, Rhodes's fourth novel, revisits the mystical landscape of Louisiana, but now, for the first time, the celebrated author of historical fiction presents a mystery set in the here and now. This is the story of Marie Levant, a great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau and a medical doctor compelled by unseen forces to relocate from Chicago to her family's native home. This is New Orleans, where the slave-holding past merges with the twenty-first century, a place where women of color are still being abused, raped, and -- even more horrifying -- rendered "un-dead," zombie-like Sleeping Beauties. The Quadroon Balls of yesterday are a present reality and only Marie Levant can untangle the medical mystery.
A smart modern-day heroine, unafraid of her sexuality, Marie Levant extends the Laveau legacy of spiritual empowerment, prophetic vision, and voodoo possession. Voodoo Season is a fresh and original work of fiction that is a magical womanist tale of mystery and power.
Friday, November 04, 2005
Congratulations Essence November Bestsellers
Congratulations PageTurner.net Clients:
FICTION HARDCOVER
#2. Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton, $24.95)
#3. The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby (William Morrow, $23.95)
FICTION PAPERBACK
#2. Grown Folks Business by Victoria Christopher-Murray (Touchstone, $14)
FICTION HARDCOVER
#2. Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey (Dutton, $24.95)
#3. The Best-Kept Secret by Kimberla Lawson Roby (William Morrow, $23.95)
FICTION PAPERBACK
#2. Grown Folks Business by Victoria Christopher-Murray (Touchstone, $14)
Davis And Foxx Marry Up To Take Urban Theater To The Next Level
For Immediate Release.
In a unique agreement, best-selling author Nina Foxx has optioned dramatic rights to her latest novel, Marrying Up, to Garrett Davis and gdavisplays.com for development as a stage play. Rehearsals are set to begin in November in Nashville, Tennessee, and the play will begin touring in February 2006, premiering in Alabama. Davis has assembled an award-winning lineup for the stage play Marrying Up that is destined to take urban theater to another level. This unique cast features Peoples’ Choice Award nominee, Thea Vidale, star of her own ABC sitcom, “Thea,” featured in a recurring role on the “Drew Carey Show” and guest appearances on “Whoopi,” Ellen” and “Comedy Central;” Kerisse Hutchinson, who plays “Chantal” on the hit ABC soap opera All My Children; Archie Love from the legendary R&B group The BarKays; and hip hop vocalist K-Rob, the next generation of Isleys Brothers. gdavisplays.com is proud to introduce Kim Fleming in her urban theater debut. Kim’s career includes touring as a background vocalist with country superstar Wynonna and her voice is featured on over 200 recordings ranging from Stevie Wonder and Brian McKinght to rockers Bon Jovi and BeBe and CeCe Winans, from gospel’s reigning musical family.
John Forbes, one of the industry’s top musical directors, who worked with Tyler Perry on his first 8 stage play productions as musical director, will now serve as musical director and producer of the soundtrack album for Marrying Up. John has an impressive array of projects to his credit including serving as musical director for Whitney Houston, Jessica Simpson and Rick James as well as composer of the film score for Tyler Perry’s recent #1 box office smash, “Diary Of A Mad Black Woman.” Additionally, John composed music for many TV shows including Tyra Banks’ “America’s Next Top Model,” ESPN, “America’s Most Wanted,” NBA Sports for Fox TV, MTV’s Video Clash, the UPN hit show “Girlfriends,” and contributed arrangements for “The New Jack City” soundtrack. John has also performed on numerous shows including “The David Letterman Show,” “The Tonight Show,” MTV Awards, “Saturday Night Live,” and the CBS Morning Show. According to Garrett Davis, the play’s Producer and Director, “I feel so fortunate to have John Forbes as our musical director, producer of the soundtrack album and a part of our production team. John brings a wealth of experience, talent and successful collaborations to gdavisplays.com and his musical genius will help me to create not just a play, but an experience.”
Nina Foxx, the author of the best-selling novel on which play is based, has been acclaimed as a “veracious storyteller” by BET Books, Nina Foxx’s academic insight into the human psyche allows her to develop sophisticated characters that are as real and as complicated as any member of her readers’ own families. In Marrying Up, Foxx peels back the veneer of her main character, Paris Montague, a determined and self-sufficient woman who parallels one of women’s fiction’s most enduring heroines, Elizabeth Bennett of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. “So many young women find themselves searching for a mate by listing the qualities that are unacceptable to them, instead of the things that are. I wanted this story to make us take a look at the things that should really be at the core of a relationship, such as love and values rather than how much money a potential mate makes. I’m really excited about working with gdavisplays.com.” Garrett Davis is excited about producing Nina Foxx’s first stage play adaptation. “I really admire Nina’s writing style. She is so visual with her characters. Nina’s style draws you into the story which made it easy for me as a playwright to turn this work into an incredible production.”
An ordained minister, Garrett Davis has written ten plays in eleven years that have earned him accolades across the country. Davis’ work in Urban Theater has earned him a Humanitarian Award nomination, and he was labeled as one of the funniest Gospel Playwrights in America by the NAACP. Davis’ latest creations, “If Loving You Is Wrong,” and “Private Chambers” (plays 8 and 9) have solidified his place as one of America’s premier playwrights and producers of Urban Theater. Upon its release in 2003, If Loving You is Wrong sold 10,000 DVDs in 90 days. Private Chambers, the first courtroom based drama for urban theater, will debut the DVD in late 2005.
Artists who have appeared in Garrett Davis’ productions during the last 11 years include Freddie Jackson, Ann Nesby (from the movie “The Fighting Temptations”), Donnie Harper of the New Jersey Mass Choir, singer songwriter Becky White, Blanche McAllister, Luther Barnes, Melvin Williams, Gerald Alston and Blue Lovette of the Manhattans, Anthony McDonald of the group Prophet Jones, Glenn Jones, gospel comedian Sister Cantaloupe, R&B Songstress Cherelle, Dorothy Townes from the Sounds of Blackness, Duranice Pace of the Pace Sisters and Carl Payne form the Martin Lawrence Show.
According to Davis, “I am so blessed to be a part of such an incredible production, from the cast and crew, to the musical direction and the underlying story. I believe that our stage production of Marrying Up create a new benchmark of excellence in urban theater.”
For booking Information, contact:
P. Browne, Esq. Phone: 615.516.2128
Email: browneentertainment@yahoo.com
In a unique agreement, best-selling author Nina Foxx has optioned dramatic rights to her latest novel, Marrying Up, to Garrett Davis and gdavisplays.com for development as a stage play. Rehearsals are set to begin in November in Nashville, Tennessee, and the play will begin touring in February 2006, premiering in Alabama. Davis has assembled an award-winning lineup for the stage play Marrying Up that is destined to take urban theater to another level. This unique cast features Peoples’ Choice Award nominee, Thea Vidale, star of her own ABC sitcom, “Thea,” featured in a recurring role on the “Drew Carey Show” and guest appearances on “Whoopi,” Ellen” and “Comedy Central;” Kerisse Hutchinson, who plays “Chantal” on the hit ABC soap opera All My Children; Archie Love from the legendary R&B group The BarKays; and hip hop vocalist K-Rob, the next generation of Isleys Brothers. gdavisplays.com is proud to introduce Kim Fleming in her urban theater debut. Kim’s career includes touring as a background vocalist with country superstar Wynonna and her voice is featured on over 200 recordings ranging from Stevie Wonder and Brian McKinght to rockers Bon Jovi and BeBe and CeCe Winans, from gospel’s reigning musical family.
John Forbes, one of the industry’s top musical directors, who worked with Tyler Perry on his first 8 stage play productions as musical director, will now serve as musical director and producer of the soundtrack album for Marrying Up. John has an impressive array of projects to his credit including serving as musical director for Whitney Houston, Jessica Simpson and Rick James as well as composer of the film score for Tyler Perry’s recent #1 box office smash, “Diary Of A Mad Black Woman.” Additionally, John composed music for many TV shows including Tyra Banks’ “America’s Next Top Model,” ESPN, “America’s Most Wanted,” NBA Sports for Fox TV, MTV’s Video Clash, the UPN hit show “Girlfriends,” and contributed arrangements for “The New Jack City” soundtrack. John has also performed on numerous shows including “The David Letterman Show,” “The Tonight Show,” MTV Awards, “Saturday Night Live,” and the CBS Morning Show. According to Garrett Davis, the play’s Producer and Director, “I feel so fortunate to have John Forbes as our musical director, producer of the soundtrack album and a part of our production team. John brings a wealth of experience, talent and successful collaborations to gdavisplays.com and his musical genius will help me to create not just a play, but an experience.”
Nina Foxx, the author of the best-selling novel on which play is based, has been acclaimed as a “veracious storyteller” by BET Books, Nina Foxx’s academic insight into the human psyche allows her to develop sophisticated characters that are as real and as complicated as any member of her readers’ own families. In Marrying Up, Foxx peels back the veneer of her main character, Paris Montague, a determined and self-sufficient woman who parallels one of women’s fiction’s most enduring heroines, Elizabeth Bennett of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. “So many young women find themselves searching for a mate by listing the qualities that are unacceptable to them, instead of the things that are. I wanted this story to make us take a look at the things that should really be at the core of a relationship, such as love and values rather than how much money a potential mate makes. I’m really excited about working with gdavisplays.com.” Garrett Davis is excited about producing Nina Foxx’s first stage play adaptation. “I really admire Nina’s writing style. She is so visual with her characters. Nina’s style draws you into the story which made it easy for me as a playwright to turn this work into an incredible production.”
An ordained minister, Garrett Davis has written ten plays in eleven years that have earned him accolades across the country. Davis’ work in Urban Theater has earned him a Humanitarian Award nomination, and he was labeled as one of the funniest Gospel Playwrights in America by the NAACP. Davis’ latest creations, “If Loving You Is Wrong,” and “Private Chambers” (plays 8 and 9) have solidified his place as one of America’s premier playwrights and producers of Urban Theater. Upon its release in 2003, If Loving You is Wrong sold 10,000 DVDs in 90 days. Private Chambers, the first courtroom based drama for urban theater, will debut the DVD in late 2005.
Artists who have appeared in Garrett Davis’ productions during the last 11 years include Freddie Jackson, Ann Nesby (from the movie “The Fighting Temptations”), Donnie Harper of the New Jersey Mass Choir, singer songwriter Becky White, Blanche McAllister, Luther Barnes, Melvin Williams, Gerald Alston and Blue Lovette of the Manhattans, Anthony McDonald of the group Prophet Jones, Glenn Jones, gospel comedian Sister Cantaloupe, R&B Songstress Cherelle, Dorothy Townes from the Sounds of Blackness, Duranice Pace of the Pace Sisters and Carl Payne form the Martin Lawrence Show.
According to Davis, “I am so blessed to be a part of such an incredible production, from the cast and crew, to the musical direction and the underlying story. I believe that our stage production of Marrying Up create a new benchmark of excellence in urban theater.”
For booking Information, contact:
P. Browne, Esq. Phone: 615.516.2128
Email: browneentertainment@yahoo.com
MARVEL TAPS ERIC JEROME DICKEY FOR SIX ISSUE STORM SERIES
Press Release
New Series Reveals the Epic Romance of X-Men Favorite Storm and Black Panther Series to Launch in February 2006, Coinciding With Black History Month
Eric Jerome Dickey, critically acclaimed author of New York Times bestsellers Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, and Genevieve, has signed on to create a spectacular, six-issue limited series of Storm, spotlighting the ever-popular X-Men heroine. The first highly anticipated issue is scheduled to debut in February 2006, coinciding with Black History Month.
Dickey's Storm story arc will present an epic romance, revealing the untold love story of the world's two most popular African American Super Heroes, Ororo (also known as Storm of the X-Men) and T'Challa (a.k.a. The Black Panther), the world's first African American Super Hero. Marking Dickey's first comic book writing effort, the captivating series blends romance and adventure against the backdrop of Africa's cruel plains. Emerging star David Yardin (Black Panther, District X) will illustrate the books.
"I never would have imagined that I'd get an opportunity to step into the Marvel Universe and work on Storm," says Dickey. "She is such a remarkable character. And being allowed to incorporate T'Challa, the future Black Panther in the same series...wake me up because I have to be dreaming."
The six-issue series follows how the famed African Prince T'Challa crosses paths with Ororo, an orphaned street urchin who only survives by sheer wit as her mutant powers are still in their infancy. As the story and romance unfold, the duo come together to fight against a mutual foe who seeks to put them in a cage and exploit them toward wicked ends.
"This is a truly groundbreaking storyline that will draw in readers from all cultural backgrounds," said Joe Quesada, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics. "Eric's unique vision for this series will thrill traditional comic fans of Storm and The Black Panther, as well as appeal to a whole new audience drawn towards Eric's remarkable storytelling ability."
Dickey's novels Liar's Game, Between Lovers, Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, Naughty or Nice, Drive Me Crazy, and Genevieve have all earned him the success of a spot on The New York Times bestseller list.. Liar's Game, Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, Naughty or Nice, and Drive Me Crazy have also given Dickey the added distinction of being nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Fiction in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. His 12th novel, Chasing Destiny, will be released in May 2006.
New Series Reveals the Epic Romance of X-Men Favorite Storm and Black Panther Series to Launch in February 2006, Coinciding With Black History Month
Eric Jerome Dickey, critically acclaimed author of New York Times bestsellers Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, and Genevieve, has signed on to create a spectacular, six-issue limited series of Storm, spotlighting the ever-popular X-Men heroine. The first highly anticipated issue is scheduled to debut in February 2006, coinciding with Black History Month.
Dickey's Storm story arc will present an epic romance, revealing the untold love story of the world's two most popular African American Super Heroes, Ororo (also known as Storm of the X-Men) and T'Challa (a.k.a. The Black Panther), the world's first African American Super Hero. Marking Dickey's first comic book writing effort, the captivating series blends romance and adventure against the backdrop of Africa's cruel plains. Emerging star David Yardin (Black Panther, District X) will illustrate the books.
"I never would have imagined that I'd get an opportunity to step into the Marvel Universe and work on Storm," says Dickey. "She is such a remarkable character. And being allowed to incorporate T'Challa, the future Black Panther in the same series...wake me up because I have to be dreaming."
The six-issue series follows how the famed African Prince T'Challa crosses paths with Ororo, an orphaned street urchin who only survives by sheer wit as her mutant powers are still in their infancy. As the story and romance unfold, the duo come together to fight against a mutual foe who seeks to put them in a cage and exploit them toward wicked ends.
"This is a truly groundbreaking storyline that will draw in readers from all cultural backgrounds," said Joe Quesada, Editor-in-Chief of Marvel Comics. "Eric's unique vision for this series will thrill traditional comic fans of Storm and The Black Panther, as well as appeal to a whole new audience drawn towards Eric's remarkable storytelling ability."
Dickey's novels Liar's Game, Between Lovers, Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, Naughty or Nice, Drive Me Crazy, and Genevieve have all earned him the success of a spot on The New York Times bestseller list.. Liar's Game, Thieves' Paradise, The Other Woman, Naughty or Nice, and Drive Me Crazy have also given Dickey the added distinction of being nominated for a NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Fiction in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. His 12th novel, Chasing Destiny, will be released in May 2006.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
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